Examples of 'death sentences' in a sentence

Meaning of "death sentences"

Death sentences are legal punishments in which a person is sentenced to death as a consequence for committing a severe crime. These sentences are usually carried out through methods such as lethal injection, electrocution, or hanging, depending on the jurisdiction's laws
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How to use "death sentences" in a sentence

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Number of death sentences overturned upon appeal.
You knew those authorisations were death sentences.
Death sentences delivered by the criminal courts.
None of these death sentences were carried out.
Death sentences are very rarely carried out.
The remainder of the death sentences were upheld.
Death sentences should under no circumstances be mandatory.
The execution of death sentences was announced recently.
Death sentences had to be confirmed by a higher court.
There are fewer death sentences and executions.
Death sentences must be approved by the president.
It called for the death sentences to be commuted.
It would apply retroactively to existing death sentences.
The rate of death sentences continues to decline.
Bierut signed many of those death sentences.

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Five death sentences should be carried out.
The sword also refers to death sentences.
The death sentences have already been decided.
All face mandatory death sentences if convicted.
It will apply retroactively to existing death sentences.
Eighteen further death sentences are pending.
Military courts continued to impose death sentences.
No new death sentences were passed by ordinary courts.
She received a total of six death sentences.
Commutes all death sentences to life imprisonment.
Juries are handing down fewer death sentences.
Death sentences are carried out by firing squad in private.
Prevent the carrying out of death sentences.
Death sentences and executions were common.
I challenged three death sentences with that argument.
Death sentences are handed down mainly in respect of minorities.
It noted that numerous death sentences were being carried out.
The death sentences were later commuted to prison terms.
Saw a dramatic rise in death sentences and executions.
The death sentences were however upheld.
You have got four death sentences a week.
That death sentences are unfairly dealt out to minorities.
You will be carrying out death sentences on traitors.
Both death sentences were cheered by some of those in court.
These were the first death sentences to be carried out.
Death sentences were also not uncommon.
Only two of those death sentences were carried out.
Death sentences shall be executed by means of shooting or injection.
He already faces death sentences in three other cases.
Death sentences were not carried out at the prison.
Commutation of death sentences to severe sentences.
Some of these trials have resulted in death sentences.
Number of death sentences committed to imprisonment.
You just signed your own death sentences.
I commute these death sentences to a lifetime of solitary imprisonment.

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